User-Centred Design

Unit code: ICT10001

Duration: 1 teaching period

About this unit

This unit of study aims to introduce students to the concept of usability and the process of user-centred design as a method of achieving good usability outcomes in software development.

Content

Topics may include:

• ISO user-centred design process and principles
• usability as a component of software quality
• understanding and modelling context of use (users, tasks and system environment)
• requirements elicitation and specification
• ethics of human research
• usability design principles, guidelines and standards
• conceptual design and iterative prototyping
• usability evaluation methods
• psychological principles

This unit is found in the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology.

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